Outlook 2010 RULES - How to use “OR” boolean

Question

It seems that Microsoft Outlook 2010 can only use the "AND" boolean when setting RULES. I find that very disturbing since even the lower end Windows Live Mail can use "OR". Am I missing something? I'm trying to recreate this WLM rule in Outlook:

Apply this rule after the message arrives
Where the From line contains 'casoclinico' 
    or Where the Subject line contains 'caso' and 'clínico' 
Move it to the Isbrae - Caso Clínico folder 

Answer 1

Remarkably, the Outlook Rules Wizard does not support OR'ing in the way you've described. You can create two separate rules to get the same result, if you don't mind a proliferation of rules. The only other alternative is to create a custom rule in VBA script, but it is not a trivial task by any means -- I wouldn't recommend it. (If you are interested, you might peruse the links found in this question.)

Answer 2

Well in this case because you are using the Subject, you could create one rule with two conditions, the first using the 'if specific words in the Subject' and the second using the 'if specific words in the Subject or Body'. The only drawback is that the rule would process messages into the designated folder if 'caso' was in the subject but 'clinico' was only in the body.

I suppose you could always write some VBA code to handle the case if this is a one-off.